Editorial Assistant

Location: London Office/Hybrid working

Reports to: Support Team Manager

Grade: 2

The Role Profile:

About us

We are Royal College of Pharmacy’s knowledge business. We support health professionals globally make quick and confident decisions about the safe and effective use of medicines to reduce risk and improve patient outcomes.

As a not-for-profit all our resources are invested into creating independent evidence-based content and essential tools that promote best practice in medicines use.

Our experienced editorial team of clinical and scientific writers includes pharmacists and science graduates who triage new information, assess evidence and review changes made by other experts before publication.

Referred to daily by health professionals across healthcare, academic and research settings and relied on by many commercial organisations to operate their businesses, our essential knowledge is available by organisational subscription online through MedicinesComplete and via license.

This is an exciting time to join PhP (Pharmaceutical Press) as we have just become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College. As a wholly owned subsidiary we will have nearly 120 employees and total revenues of more than £18 million. Our surplus is “handed to the Royal College” annually to enable them to fulfil their charitable purposes.

For more information visit www.PharmaceuticalPress.com

About this Role:

Assist and support the editorial team by providing quality assurance for product outputs, by processing of post-content creation tests and data generation, and by supporting the editorial procedures that occur in the wider editorial team and during content creation.

Main Accountabilities:

1. To undertake routine checking procedures involved in production of products, including proof reading and other tasks relevant to the quality assurance of the product outputs

2. To undertake, as directed, the processes involved in the creation and compilation of products

3. To undertake the collection and assembly of data to support content creation, to assist in the content creation process where needed

4. To process correspondence and when appropriate, respond to correspondence with relevant stakeholders

5. To assist in the timely delivery of content by contributing to the content creation process, where appropriate.

6. To provide general administrative support for the whole team.

This list is a summary of the main accountabilities of this role and is not exhaustive. The role holder may be required to undertake other reasonable duties from time to time.

The Candidate Profile:

Essential:

• A further education qualification in physical or life sciences, or other appropriate qualification

• Meticulous eye for detail and the ability to work accurately under pressure

• Experience in the use of computers and searching of academic databases and data collection

• High efficiency working within a team and individually

Desirable:

• Experience of HTML and/or XML

DATE JOB DESCRIPTION drafted: June 2026